Radeon RX 470 and Polaris 21 - video card comparison

Radeon RX 470

Polaris 21

Architecture

Polaris (2016−2019)

GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)

GPU code name

Polaris 10 Pro

Polaris 21

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

August 2016

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Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

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Supplementary power connectors

1x 6-pin

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Boost clock speed

1206 MHz

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Core clock speed

926 MHz

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Floating-point performance

4,940 gflops

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Manufacturing process technology

14 nm

14 nm

Number of transistors

5,700 million

3,000 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

2048

1024

Power consumption (TDP)

120 Watt

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Texture fill rate

154.4

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Memory type

GDDR5

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Maximum RAM amount

8 GB

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Memory bus width

256 Bit

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Memory clock speed

6600 MHz

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Memory bandwidth

211.2 GB/s

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Shared memory

-

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Display Connectors

1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort

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HDMI

+

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DirectX

12 (12_0)

12 (12_0)

OpenCL

2.0

2.1

OpenGL

4.6

4.6

Shader Model

6.4

6.7

Vulkan

1.2.131

1.3

FreeSync

+

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